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Felt particularly inspired after checking out Darryl Reeves new Dillaquarium Mixtape and built this week's playlist off of his "Donut Man" track. This one is full of hidden gems so I can't wait to here what y'all think. Enjoy.

Alto saxophonist Louis Fouche, which you may have already heard alongside Christian Scott or Eddie Palmieri, released a three track EP a couple months ago. Subjective Mind features Nextbop favorites Romain Collin on keys, Luques Curtis on bass and Eric Doob on drums. Listen to the album in its entirety below and if you like what you hear, go cop yourself the download for $3 of the physical copy for $5 (Bandcamp, iTunes or Amazon MP3).

Two of our favorite Nextbop artists, pianist Dan Tepfer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Wendel (Kneebody, Tigran Hamasyan’s Aratta Rebirth) have teamed up in what we’ll call a stroke of genius to bring us a duo album. Small Constructions will be released on Sunnyside Records March 12th during the pairs’ US and European March tour (dates below). Luckily for the impatient ones among you, the team was also immortalized by videographer Alex Chaloff (remember that sick Mehliana video I posted last week?). Check out the three videos below while they’re fresh!